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Your Weakest Security Link? Your Children

They are always making mischief online. Here’s how to rein them in.

Children can compromise the security of our data and our networks in a wide range of ways. Alexandra Samuel discusses how to keep children and data safe. Photo: Getty

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Alexandra Samuel

April 19, 2015 11:11 p.m. ET

What do you do when the biggest threat to your cybersecurity lives under your own roof?

It’s a fact of life online: a network is only as strong as its weakest link. For many people, that weakest link is their children. They inadvertently download viruses. They work around security to visit sites their parents don’t want them to. They run up huge...